Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-09
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

Henry II. Herdman book-keeper in the
Citizens National Bank of Kansas City, has
been sentenced to six years Imprisonment in
tbs penitentiary for forgery. He was arrest
ed in Chicago while attempting TO buy
$40, 600 worth of government bonds with the
proceeds Of his crime. His downfall is at
tributed to his infatuation for woman.
A sensation has been caused by the fact
that several ministers in their sermons Sun
day denounced the Columbia IS. c. City
Club as q gambling hell Among the MEM
bers Of tie club are Gov. Richardson, Sena-
tors Hampton AID Butler and many other
eminent public men.
The change in the price of the New York
Herald from to 3 cents was ordered by Mr.
Bennett in a cablegram from Paris and was
entirely unexpe;tel l. It is rumored that
other 2-cent dailies will follow the Heralds
example.
A crowd of negro railroad hands broke in
to the Oakland tFla.) Jail and carried away
Wilism Williams, who killed Gustave Eells.
Williams was lynched, but his body cannot
bo found.
Monday, Nov. 2S was the coldcst day ever
known in Iowa at this season of the year,
the temperature reaching So degrees below
zero.
The Anarchists OF Chicago, ILL.,, have pre-
pared a circular for distribution among the
workingmen, which declares that force Is the
only means of success, and urges the believers
in their doctrines 10 stand by their cause,
oven il it leads to death.
Mayor Hewitt has granted permission to
Josef Hofmann, the boy pianist, to perform
four times per week in public at the Metro
politan Opera House, but not twice in one
day. Elbridge T. Gerry, president of the
SociUSy for the Prevention of Cruelty ia
Children, was present when the permission
was given.
A Washington special says that Mr.. Blaine
will return TO this country via Japan, and
will arrive in San Francisco June 20 next,
five days prior to the national Republican
convention.
The Term just opening at the New England
Conservatory, promises to be the largest in
its history, whileall sections of New England
are represented at this institution. The
present term shows q large number Of ac-
cessionS from the South, indicating that this
section is approaching more than ever, the
super iCi advantages offered them at the con-
servatory.
The life-saving crew saved the crew and a
woman-coOH from tho wreck Of the schooner
Julia of Kingston, Ont, which went ashore
in gale near Oswego, N. Y.
Mrs. Jefferson has stopped the movement
started at Macon to raise 10y popular sub
scription jeff Davis fund,
The hanged Anarchists are to be buried in
Mt. Greenwood cemetery, 20 miles south of
Chicago on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
railway. The interment will take place with
all possible pomp and public demonstrations.
On the Hudson large fields of floating ice are
visible between Hudson and Albany. Navi-
| cation north OF COXSackie will soon close.
All tows are hurrying southwark.
Rev. Mr.. Grubar, a well-kuown minister
of the Methodist church, was killed on the
railway in Iroquois, Ill.
Mr. a. NJ Palmer, president Of the Actors
| Fund, reports the gross receipts Of tho bene-
| ft performance at the Grand Opera House,
to be S3156 -, with several expected contl'i-
| buttons yet to hear from. This is the largest
amount ever produced by any performance
| in aid of the fund
| An affray occurred near Memphis, Tenn,
between whites and negroes, which resulted
in the killing of two negroes and the wound
ing of several others.
Dorsey. the negro who robbed Banker
Morgan>s house in New York City, has been
sentenced to 10 years in the state prison.
At an explosion on the work of the Free
port, DodgeVille & Northern road, two miles
south Of Dodgevlle, Wis, one man was
| killed outright and five burned. The labor
ers were boring out an unexploded blast.
Four men were burned to death in the
Lawrence house at Brookvile, Kan Many
guests saved their lives by jumping.
Mary H. Gilbert died at Gloucester at the
advanced age of l0I years, months and o
days.
Benjamin Hazlitt, an insane man, jumped
1 from all attic window ut Beverly, Mass,
while temporarily Insane, and struck on a
fence, breaking several ribs and sustaining
internal injuries.
Miss Meehan, the victim of the oil Of Wit,
riol throwing, at Haycrhill, Mass, is slightly
moro comfortable. Physicians hope to save
the sight OF one eye, perhaps OF both.
Fred Schurawsky, al operative in Sturte
wants woollen mill at Beanhill, Conn, wa:
caught in the machinery while trying tx
throw q belt from pulley this morning, and
/ was instantly killed. He leaves widow and
two children.
The new hog disease is still raging among
the swine in tho Housatonic valley, Conn.
and the farmers are losing many of theil
hest porkcrs. Very few hogs live more thar
six days after being attacked, and none re
cover.
Ben Cusley and Charles A. Logan, two
young rival suitors for the hand OF Eliza
beth Waterson, II years old, the daughter ol
a well-known farmer in Oxford Junction
Ia, nieJ III tuc SlIIS uOlue IeCenIlyI WHeI
desperate encounter ensuet, the victor t
have the prize. Cusley was finally
successful, driving his rival off at the poin
Of revolver. Logan was the favorite with
the girl, and the day following she sent {
bullet throught her heart.
Henry Trvmg's performance of Faust
at the Star Theatre, in New York, realized
$@931 30. which will be turned over to the
Beecher monument fund.
Forty men were engaged III digging fol
the men buried amid thousands of tons o
rocks and earth in the HummeStown ston,
quarry and the body of one man, a Huugar
ian, has been found. John Boyer, who wa
dug out will recover Stieff Verbemes ant
John Bricker are buried so deep that thei
bodies cannot be recovered for several weeks
A Wichita (Kan special says: It is statet
that the town OF Hugo, Col, is over-run will
rats Mr.. j. NJ. Humphrey has received
letter from there stating that rats had col
lected in the town by the million, and asking
him to collect all the cats he could find ant
express them there. As a result, Humphrey
collected from owners who were glad to give
them away, $50 cats, put them in cages an(
expressed them to Hugo. He intends t.
finish out 1000 cats and then await further
orders From the letter he learned that tn
cold weather had caused rats to come in from
the prairie in great numbers, and they ar
| playing SAD naYOc WIN residences ana mer
chandise of all kinds. The letter announced
that the rodents had done thousands of dollar
damage in the town.
The Anarchist Sangerfest committe
called on the mayor of Chicago to plead TO
permission to supply beer at their comm;
battery demonstration. His honor laconi
cally declined to alter his previous decision
Subsequently they offered to detail so o
their number to see that everybody wa
sober hut the mayor dismissed them by in
quiring who was to keep the so sober. Th
deputatien then left.
Cornell has just added another VALUABLE
treasure to its large collection of rarities
relics and old books and manuscripts Tn
| recent acnniSition is the I" eta Sanctorum